Can't agree that George Washington and the other fomenters of the American Revolution were particularly wise at the time they committed to war against Great Britain. Without the influence of Franklin in France, they would not have prevailed, and history would have remembered them as the Hamas of their da: a gang of insane hotheads whose …
Can't agree that George Washington and the other fomenters of the American Revolution were particularly wise at the time they committed to war against Great Britain. Without the influence of Franklin in France, they would not have prevailed, and history would have remembered them as the Hamas of their da: a gang of insane hotheads whose greed for property west of the Alleghenies drove them to unleash the dogs of murder, rape and theft not only against the British, but against their own neighbors and the Indians. Their grievances (as can be read in the Declaration of Independence) were exaggerated, short-sighted, and trivial compared to the gains they might have enjoyed as members of the coming British Empire. Washington was a killer who enjoyed war, and had blood on his hands from having helped launch the French-Indian War.
The Founders appear wise in the light of the Constitutional Convention and their writings around it, and by the efforts of historians, politicians, lecturers, etc., down through the 19th century, who scrubbed their crimes against humanity out of history.
Can't agree that George Washington and the other fomenters of the American Revolution were particularly wise at the time they committed to war against Great Britain. Without the influence of Franklin in France, they would not have prevailed, and history would have remembered them as the Hamas of their da: a gang of insane hotheads whose greed for property west of the Alleghenies drove them to unleash the dogs of murder, rape and theft not only against the British, but against their own neighbors and the Indians. Their grievances (as can be read in the Declaration of Independence) were exaggerated, short-sighted, and trivial compared to the gains they might have enjoyed as members of the coming British Empire. Washington was a killer who enjoyed war, and had blood on his hands from having helped launch the French-Indian War.
The Founders appear wise in the light of the Constitutional Convention and their writings around it, and by the efforts of historians, politicians, lecturers, etc., down through the 19th century, who scrubbed their crimes against humanity out of history.